Draxum's Twins AU Snippet #14
Draxum leaned in close to his twins, placing a heavy and commanding hand on each of their shoulders. "I need you to bring your, uh, brothers to me."
"Why?" Leo asked, intrigued.
Donnie threw him a stern look, surprised that his younger twin even had the audacity to question their father. Luckily, Draxum didn't negatively react to the question, and he simply smiled. The expression looked foreign and forced, and it took everything in Donnie not to shudder at it.
One would think the sheep yokai would be better at faking after all these years.
"I want to help them," Draxum replied, gently. "They were stolen from me - I mean us - all those years ago. They're probably being taken advantage of as we speak."
"By who?" Donnie found himself saying before he could bite down on his tongue.
"By the humans, obviously," Draxum stated, his grip tightening on both of the twin's shoulder. Neither of them dared make a sound in response to it, though. "They're most likely trying to use them against us and all yokai kind. So, they can destroy us."
With a huff, Draxum released their shoulders, and he stepped back to regard his sons. Donnie just barely fought the urge to rub his burning his shoulder.
"So, I need you to bring them to me," Draxum commanded. "That way I can show them the truth that they've been kept from."
Donnie nodded and, out of the corner of his eye, he could see Leo mirroring him.
"Great," Draxum awkwardly rose his hands and patted them both on the head. "And make sure they don't realize that you're doing. The last thing we want are the humans figuring out us."
And, with that, Draxum twisted on his heel and left the room, his gargoyles following closely behind. As soon as the sheep yokai was out of sight, Donnie looked at his shoulder. Unsurprisingly, there was a large red handprint from where his father had grabbed him.